Following Tuesday evening's entertaining draw between Oxford and Cambridge United, home manager Chris Wilder met with the media to look back at the action.
"I think we deserved to win the game, I think we did enough. We got a bit anxious in the last ten minutes. I watched the same as the supporters, I watched final balls and bits and pieces that never went our way. I didn't think it was rubbish, and a lot of people I've spoken to who were here tonight thought that was rubbish. If you went and asked Wrexham, Mansfield, Cambridge, who have a budget in and around where we are, they'd all swap positions with us."
Reflecting the attacking nature of the fixture, the former Halifax boss offered his analysis of how his side pressurised Martin Ling's back line while also neutralising the visitor's attacking threat.
"I was seeing a team that was having a go for it, I'm seeing a team driving the game to the end, we created chances and should have been (a goal) up against a decent side. Cambridge aren't a mug side, they aren't going to come here and just roll over. They have good players. They had four or five missing for Saturday and they all came back tonight because they know they've got to stick their decent side out, and fair play to them.
"Crow and Phillips are no mugs, Marriott's not a mug when he comes on and neither is Willock. We've wrapped them up. They've had occasional breakaways in the second half which was decent play from them but maybe it was because we were really going for them so left ourselves a touch open."
Martin Ling's side had their own chances to secure three points but Wilder concluded by reiterating his belief that his side were the more deserving winners, while also praising the travelling side for their defensive display.
"After the first fifteen minutes I thought we did really well. We had chances, we drove the game forward. Brian Saah's defended unbelievably well. Go and ask Paul Carden, who's possibly the best midfield player in the Conference, what a difficult night he's had. Go and ask Danny Crow, one of the best centre forwards in the league, if he's been given change out of our two centre halves apart from the chance he had, which in truth was a fantastic bit of skill. Go in their changing room and see how they feel tonight because I think we've had a right go at them. That'll be one of the hardest games they've had.
"Cambridge have been in the Playoff Final last year and the year before and we were going at them to the last minute."
Matt Ramsay
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